We left the 22nd at 5:00am, headed for Tennessee. Along the way we only had one major hiccup....angry drivers. Someone tailgating us with their high beams on...Ken returning the favor after they passed us.....a semi running us off the road.....Ken blaring the horn to tell the trucker how he felt about his driving......A polite, but firm, letter is ready to be sent to the company regarding that incident.
Tennessee was wonderful. It was so much fun to see family, especially that side. Been much too long since I had a Gentry reunion....even longer for the Tennessee Gentry's (25 years, I think?).
Hezekiah and his cousins loved each other....when they weren't trying to all play with the same thing at the same time of course :) He made a killing with presents this year. His favorites at the moment are the "Glow-worm" and the "AQUAdoodle"...the "AQUAdoodle" was the first thing he ran to this morning when he got up.
Christmas dinner was a typical Gentry meal......HUGE! Turkey, ham (half with honey glaze, half without), corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, rolls, stuffing, and more that I can't remember at the moment. Desert was just as wonderful....Pineapple upside-down cake, pumpkin pies, cheesecake and home-made chocolate cream pies (with cocoa). As we were leaving Ed blessed us with 2 boxes of canned food and 1 box of potatoes. I think I've got meals for a week or more with everything he sent us. And Bonnie sent home an overflowing coffee can of flavored coffees.
We left with so much more than we came with (A Gentry tradition I think) we had to leave Hezekiah's "inch worm bike" at his cousins, to be picked up at a later date.
Coming back was pretty uneventful for the most part. There was snow pretty much all the way, but not too bad of roads.....until Virginia. I think the snow was following us. It seemed the closer we got to our area, the more cars were sliding off the roads into the ditch/shoulder.
Now it's back to life as normal......well, normal-ish. Ken has duty today, so it's just me and Kiah for dinner tonight. I think for my "me time" I am going to watch my 3D version of JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. Ken and I were able to have a semi-spontaneous date night and saw NARNIA: VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER in 3D, so I saved my glasses for this very reason =D
Been a very adventurous year, filled with many blessings indeed.
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